Drib vs Dribble - What's the difference?
drib | dribble |
To cut off; chop off.
To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
To entice step by step.
* Dryden
To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
* Dryden
(archery) To shoot directly at short range.
(archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
(archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
To beat; thrash; drub.
To scold.
To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet
(basketball) To bounce the ball on the floor with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it;
To advance by dribbling
to let something fall in drips
* Jonathan Swift
in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks
A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
A small amount of a liquid.
In sport, the act of dribbling.
As verbs the difference between drib and dribble
is that drib is to cut off; chop off while dribble is .As a noun drib
is a drop.drib
English
Etymology 1
From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(dribb)- With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.
- He who drives their bargain dribs a part.
- (Sir Philip Sidney)
Etymology 2
From a variant of drip.Anagrams
*dribble
English
Verb
(dribbl)- Let the cook dribble it all the way upstairs.